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Tuesday, 4 December 2018

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Skeptoid #652: THE CASH-LANDRUM UFO INCIDENT

So often when we open the pages of UFO lore, we find this case or that case all claiming to be the one with the very best evidence. But when we've looked at each of these in turn here on Skeptoid, they invariably fall apart as the evidence, examined closer, turns out to be anecdotal or misinterpreted. Over all of these years, one UFO case has been sent to me time and time again, for it's one of the very few said to have resulted in physical injuries to multiple witnesses, and even to have triggered a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the government. It happened in Texas in 1980 and is named after its two primary witnesses: the Cash-Landrum UFO Incident. by Brian DunningRead | Listen

WONDER OF THE WEEK

The Six Million Dollar Leaf

The bionic leaf (Image: Harvard U)

Harvard researchers recently introduced the latest iteration of their "bionic leaf", a film that does the same basic thing as Mother Nature. Water, air and sunlight in; and organics out.

In this case, the basic leaf uses a metal catalyst which, when submerged in water and struck with sunlight, breaks the water down into hydrogen off one side of the film and oxygen off the other side. This then goes to a special bacteria that consumes these elements and excrete a liquid fuel. In this case, isopropanol.

Scaled up, such a system could be the basic engine behind creating free, limitless carbon-neutral fuel capable of powering cars, airplanes, name it.

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